In "Israeli Warplan Had No Exit Strategy" the Washington Post's Scott Wilson presents a straightforward but not very incisive partial ...   more »

The Israeli government continues to tout the Lebanon War as a victory on the basis of to things:  that the ...   more »

"Inside Hezbollah, Big Miscalculations" a report in today's Washington Post, describes Hezbollah's supposed surprise at the level and intensity of Israel's ...   more »

This picture proportedly shows to IDF special forces soldiers near a French UN Leclerc MBT.  Whether this photo was taken ...   more »

A number of recent articles (unfortunately I don't have links to them any longer) have commented on Hezbollah Chieftain Hassan ...   more »

The latest hypocritical and stupid attack on Israel is coming from the UN and so-called human rights groups over the...   more »

Hezbollah chieftan Hassan Nasrallah, evidently annoyed by Israeli Prime Minister Olmert's idle and silly boasts about forcing the former underground while the latter continues to fecklessly muck up Israeli policy in the fresh air, responded in an interview yesterday, confirming something I have been saying for a long time, to wit:  that Nasrallah is pleased that his "oops I made a mistake speech" helped Olmert. This comes from report in Haaretz:

He [Nasrallah] added that he knows Olmert is making use of his statement that Hezbollah would not have kidnapped the two soldiers had it known this would result in war. "I don't mind that Olmert is benefiting from this. If we have to choose between a foolish prime minister and another who is strong and capable, we prefer that the fool remain," he said.

 

An IDF M-113 that appears to be on its way out of Lebanon in 2000.  Few if any appeared ...   more »

In an article in the Jerusalem Post (“Why Israel Wins Wars”), analyst Barry Rubin, proposes to debunk much of the ...   more »

The headline of this Debka article suggests that NATO nations under the flag of that organization, the UN, and in ...   more »

Army's almost never seek to revise combat doctrines after perceived victories, but are more open-minded after losses. The Israel Defense Force ...   more »

This article in Haaretz is confirmation of my conclusion days ago that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah's "oops I made a ...   more »

In "Diversionary Strike on a Rights Group" (op-ed Washington Post) an evidently Jewish member of the virulently anti-Israel NGO Human ...   more »

Here's some more Lebanon War revisionism, which I define as claims that Israel under the Olmert government actually won ...   more »

This extraordinary video, in Hebrew, shows an elaborate Hezbollah bunker complex in south Lebanon built virtually around a UN observer site.  It is inconceivable that the UN observers were unaware of the activity, and it shows how Hezbollah invited IDF fire on UN posts.  The new UN observer force, unfortunately, will probably provide cover for Hezbollah in the same manner.

 

The smiling terror chief makes nice, for now.

Too bad Israel is not led by leaders as clever as ...   more »

It's odd when a strong supporter of Israel like me is forced into the position of arguing that Israel has ...   more »

Here's an interesting, ironic and odd article from an the Israeli media comparing modern Israel to ancient Carthage, and its enemies ...   more »

Edward Luttwak, a noted military historian with particular experience writing about the IDF claims that most analysts have misread the ...   more »

I've long noted that in all but formalities one would think that Britain and Israel were at war, given the vituperative and anti-Semitic tone of both the British political class and the media.  As if that wasn't enough, IDF forces found sophisticated British-made night-fighting and command-control gear in the possession of Hezbollah fighters in South Lebanon.  Officially, this gear was sold to Iran by the Limeys as drug interdiction aid, and then transferred to Hezbollah.  But it is hard to believe that the Snaggle-toothed hypocrites didn't know exactly what they were doing and selling to a willing buyer for cash, knowing quite well that the equipment would end up with the world's most deadly terror group. 

Items left behind by Israeli commandos on an ill-advised "secret" raid.

The motto of the British SAS is "Who dares ...   more »

I've been writing about the disappointing state of Israel's army for the last month.  There is nothing that I haven't ...   more »

I'm working on my own Lebanon War scorecard, which will be the last word on the conflict, that I, before ...   more »

It takes a lot of supply to keep a tank, and its crew, running.

The Lebanese Army deployment to South ...   more »

Dan Halutz, the first Israeli Chief of Staff to lead that nation's army to defeat in a war, is not ...   more »

According to Debka.com the Iranian leadership views the Lebanon War as a serious defeat for its own interests (Tehran Takes ...   more »

I won't argue against the proposition that Hezbollah is "The Best Guerrilla Force in the World" as reported in the ...   more »

The Jerusalem Post's Caroline Glick takes apart the UN resolution to which Israel's government cowardly acceded in "An Unmitigated Disaster."...   more »

Of course, my prediction yesterday about Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert proved to be entirely correct, almost down to the ...   more »

As usual, it's very hard to figure out what is going on with the current Israeli government. If a ten-year-old ...   more »

Yesterday I opined that Hezbollah chief Sheik Nasrallah had taken a calculated gamble by rejecting the initial US-French terms for ...   more »

Israel still hasn't launched an offensive to the Litani.  It is being delayed by the Israeli government's continued vacillation and ...   more »

What's wrong with this photo from Lebanon?

This photo from a Washington Post article "It's Dangerous But Hezbollah is Strong" ...   more »

Dead Hezbollah fighter.  How many more?

A poster on the Jerusalem Post website questioned whether Israeli casualty claims against Hezbollah ...   more »

Well supposedly the IDF is now authorized to advance to the Litani River in South Lebanon and perhaps beyond.  Don't ...   more »

It's interesting to see how bit by bit pro-Israel media, that cheered Israel's early bombing and limited ground campaign have ...   more »

Weepy Leb PM and sack sack aide.

The most despicable actors in the whole Lebanon War are the representatives of ...   more »

IDF reservists--coming and going--but where?

The Lebanon War is bewildering.  On FOX (which is solidly pro-Israel and provides wall-to-wall coverage) ...   more »

The conflict in Lebanon is still far from over and yet there are already lessons to be learned for the ...   more »

Israel's slow-go advance into South Lebanon with a minimum of troops, moving at a cautious pace, was supposed to save ...   more »

Caroline Glick of the Jerusalem Post is a smart observer of Israel and the Middle East, whom I often praise, but she now seems to be cribbing off me with "Amateur Hour is Over" in which she pounds, appropriately Israeli PM Olmert for his ineffectual and feckless performance so far.  It's okay, I don't mind, and she's in good company with the Wall Street Journal and Charles Krauthammer among others, who have belatedly reached conclusions given here long ago.  Of course, I'd be real happy if any of these folks actually got their ideas here, and flattered.

Glick goes so far as to compare Olmert to Bill Clinton, which I have long done, and call for "tough love" for Israel--something else I did a few weeks ago. 

The only area in which Glick is off, and doesn't track with my previous work is when she comes down on Condi Rice.  I think Glick misinterprets some of what Rice is doing.  The US is providing Israel incredible cover for Lebanon, but the Olmert government is blowing it.  Rice is a diplomat.  She can't very well ignore the screaming and yelling from America's "allies" forever. 

Otherwise, a very good column from Glick as usual, although you could have read the same thing here long ago.

Israel has never employed gunships like the AC-130 but it should start thinking about it, either by purchasing from the ...   more »

Even the dumbest armchair strategist can see that an Israeli advance west from Metula to the coast would cut off ...   more »

Charles Krauthammer has finally taken Israeli Prime Minister Olmert to task for bungling the Lebanon war, and by doing so ...   more »